2011–2012 Season
Why do you go to the theatre?
Is it for pleasure, an opportunity to laugh, to cry, to commiserate, to share an experience with a trusted friend, to escape as the houselights go out? Or is it to sit quietly and listen to a well told story–like a child being read to before bed, for insight into the ordinary or the extraordinary, for adventure, desire, romance, for the vivid and the vital.
What is common to all of the above, I suggest, is the act of imagination. Imagination is, after all, the domain of passion and the muscle of compassion.
Join us for theatre that takes you out of yourself and into your imagination.
Richard Rose
Artistic Director
Click here to view the season brochure or browse the 2011/12 plays below.
The Golden Dragon
by Roland Schimmelpfennig
translated by David Tushingham
directed by Ross Manson
January 10–February 19, 2012
in the Mainspace
A Why Not Theatre Production
A Brimful of Asha
by Asha and Ravi Jain
January 24–February 26, 2012
in the ExtraExtra Space
The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs
by Carole Fréchette
translated by John Murrell
directed by Weyni Mengesha
February 29–April 8, 2012
in the Mainspace
The Real World
by Michel Tremblay
translated by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco
directed by Richard Rose
April 24–June 3, 2012
in the Mainspace
Past 2011/12 Productions
A co-production with the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre
In the Next Room
or the vibrator play
by Sarah Ruhl
directed by Richard Rose
September 13–October 23, 2011
in the Mainspace
Name in Vain
(Decalogue Two)
by André Alexis
directed by Richard Rose
October 4–30, 2011
in the ExtraExtra Space
featuring word! sound! powah! in repertory with blood.claat and benu
the sankofa trilogy
written and performed by d’bi.young anitafrika
October 22–December 4, 2011
in the Extra Space
A co-production with Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company
The Children’s Republic
by Hannah Moscovitch
directed by Alisa Palmer
November 8–December 18, 2011
in the Mainspace